Category Archive: technology

My 2009 Conference Wish List

Every year I compile a wish list of conferences and events I’d love to go to, if only I had the time and funds (and, <ahem> I’m wide open to any benevolent sponsors, of course!). Some I’ve been to in the past, some I’ve ... Read more...

iPhone app to access the DC Public Library catalog

The potential utility of the iPhone continues to impress – check out this new application (direct link in iTunes) that basically opens up the OPAC for the Washington DC Public Library catalog for iPhone users. It’s clean and direct, which... Read more...

Is 2009 the End Times for Print News?

While the collapse of the print news business has been forecast for a long while now, it’s still shocking to see the speed at which it looks like it’s starting to happen. 2009 really may end up being the year of the apocalypse for the dai... Read more...

Tweet of the Year, Hands Down

This Tweet, from a Mike Wilson (@2drinksbehind – I’m guessing he caught up later…), a passenger on the Continental jet that ran off the runway in Denver and burst into flames this week, wins hands down for Tweet of the Year 2008. S... Read more...

Emerging from The Cone of Silence

On a day where perhaps more information was flowing from more sources and through more channels than at any time in history, I spent 5 hours sitting in a “cone of silence” – a 737 heading east from Seattle to NYC. I fly all the time... Read more...